What!?!?! You have to put up with a full moon there?
Nice filk. Thank you.
Greg Edwards
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Jane Houston Jones wrote:
> I was inspired to hum this old hobo ballad and change the words a little
> after a summer observing trip to Glacier Point in Yosemite National
> Park. For you musicologists, I added my "observations" to the 1928
> recording of Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry McClintock. This version
> is featured in the movie soundtrack of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
> Feel free to hum along...
>
> One evening as the sun went down and the campfire light was burning
> Down the track came a star-girl hiking, and she said "boys I'm not
> turning
> "I'm headed for a land that's far away, below the starry fountains
> "So come with me, we'll go and see the Big Eye Candy Mountains"
>
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright
> Where the Naglers grow on bushes and you star gaze every night
> Where the seeing is fantastic, transparency supreme
> On the swan and the bees and the planetary seas
> The Milky Way springs where the Cygnus wings
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains
>
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains all the 'scopes have sturdy legs
> And your can use high power when the seeing conditions begs
> The doubles split so easily, and planetary moons are disks
> Oh I'm bound to go where there ain't no glow
> Where the meteors fall, and the wind don't blow
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains
>
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains you never change your socks
> And the little streams of Fosters Beer come a-trickling down the rocks
>
> The horizon view is full of stars and the zenith darker yet
> There's a universe for you and a galaxy or two
> You can starhop all around 'em with a wide-field view
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains
>
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains the restrooms are nearby
> And you can see the Milky Way above you in the sky
> There ain't no used car dealerships, no streetlights, cars or malls
> I'm a-goin' to stay where I sleep all day
> Snuggling in my tent with my favorite gent :-)
> In the Big Eye Candy Mountains
>
> I'll see you soon this comin' new moon in the Big Eye Candy Mountains
>
> --
> Jane Houston Jones
> San Rafael, CA
> jane@No-Spam
> http://www.whiteoaks.com
>
>
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